1To enable HarfBuzz bindings for Python among other languages, make sure 2you have latest version of gobject-introspection available. On Ubuntu, 3you can install that this way: 4 5```bash 6sudo apt-get install libgirepository1.0-dev 7``` 8 9And then run autogen.sh (if building from git), and then: 10 11```bash 12./configure --with-gobject --enable-introspection 13``` 14 15Make sure that gobject-introspection is enabled then in the final report. 16 17Compile and install. 18 19Make sure you have the installation lib dir in LD_LIBRARY_PATH, as needed 20for the linker to find the library. 21 22Then make sure you also have GI_TYPELIB_PATH pointing to the resulting 23$prefix/lib/girepository-* directory. 24 25Make sure you have pygobject installed. Then check that the following 26import works in your Python interpreter: 27 28```python 29from gi.repository import HarfBuzz 30``` 31 32If it does, you are ready to call HarfBuzz from Python! Congratulations. 33See src/sample.py. 34 35The Python API will change. Let us know on the mailing list if you are 36using it, and send lots of feedback. 37